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<h2>Changes in 2.0 beta 4</h2>
<pre>
	- Source compiles under JDK 1.5

	- Better defined classloading precendence:

		in-script evaluated class (scripted class)
		in-script added / modified classpath

		optionally, external classloader
		optionally, thread context classloader

		plain Class.forName()
		source class (.java file in classpath)

	- Method selection code has been rewritten to move towards Java 5 rules.
	This should correct a number of problems where inaccessible methods are
	selected and also correct security problems in applets and other secure
	environments.  Method selection should no longer call getDeclaredMethods()
	unless accessibility is explicitly activated.  The same is true for
	constructors and fields.

	- Updated applet demos (http://beanshell.org/demo).  JConsole and desktop
	now run in untrusted environment, with limitations.  Applets cannot
	create classloaders, so BeanShell cannot script classes in the unsigned
	environment.  These demos are very rough and need some work. 

	- The show() command now works in both interactive and non-interactive
	modes.  This means that for experimentation, instead of doing things like:
	
		print( myObject instanceof Blah );
		print( myObject.getFoo() );
		print( myObject.somethingElse() );
	
	You can simply do:

		show();
		myObject instanceof Blah;
		myObject.getFoo();
		myObject.somethingElse();
	
	This can be combined with the trace property -Dtrace=true (currently a
	static, interpreter wide flag) to display line by line execution and
	results.
	
	The bsh.show variable is gone and has been replaced with a property
	on the interpreter.

	- Fixed bug in super.method() resolution inside nested blocks.

	- Added workaround for load() command to use the BshClassManager for
		deserializing classes.
	
	- Fixed some cases where SecurityException could not be caught by scripts
	  and handled.

</pre>

<h2>Changes in 2.0 beta 3</h2>
<pre>
	String literals are now interned, as per JSL ch3 10.5.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 2.0 beta 2</h2>
<pre>
	Added code to address the class redefinition problem.  BeanShell will now
	use the bsh classloader to allow the classes to be reloaded as necessary.

	<p/>
	Note: this only affects users who are utilizing the new BeanShell 2.0+
	features to script classes and interfaces using the standard Java
	class/interface syntax.  There is no problem with scripting interfaces
	using bsh objects or the anonymous inner class style syntax that has always
	been supported.

</pre>

<h2>Changes in 2.0 beta 1</h2>
<pre>
      - With release 2.0 BeanShell supports the full Java syntax.
      You can now script Java classes that serve as real Java types.
      Scripted classes may extend ordinary Java classes, abstract classes, and
      implement interfaces as usual.  Constructors and methods invoked on the
      scripted classes are delegated to the BeanShell interpreter.  This 
      means that within scripted classes you may use the full power of 
      BeanShell scripting including commands, loose types, and other BeanShell
      Java extensions such as method closures if you wish.

      BeanShell will now attempt to load classes from ".java" source files in 
      the classpath if the compiled class is not found.

      Current Limitations:

        - In order to run a class file's main method with arguments from the
          command line the class containing your main method must be the last
          item in the file.  e.g. a .java file with the public class appearing
          last.

        - Static final fields (constants) in interfaces are currently broken.

        - Non-static inner classes are currently implemented in a non-standard
          way (using mix-ins) so mixing interpreted classes with their
          pre-compiled inner classes will not work properly in all cases.

        - Inner classes are not properly "imported" in some cases. e.g. Class A
          contains one ormore inner classes.  Class B extends class A and
          attempt to refer to those inner classes by their unqualified names.

        - Static blocks in the class body are not yet implemented.

        - If you have a source class at the wrong place in the classpath you
          may get a non-fatal error when bsh attempts to load the class again.


    - JDK 1.5 style static class imports.  
      You can import the static methods and fields of a java Class into a
      BeanShell namespace. e.g. 

        static import java.lang.Math.*;
        sqrt(4.0);

    - Instance object imports (mix-ins) with the importObject() command. 
      You can import the methods and fields of a Java object instance into
      a BeanShell namespace.  e.g.

        Map map = new HashMap();
        importObject( map );
        put("foo", "bar");
        print( get("foo") ); // "bar"
    
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.3 beta 2</h2>
<pre>
    - Added reserved Java keywords.  Added: "strictfp", "implements", 
      "extends", "package", and the new Java 1.5 keyword "enum".  strictfp
      is now accepted as a modifier and ignored.  The rest are not supported
      (yet).

    - Properties style auto-allocation of variables.

         // foo is initially undefined
         foo.bar.gee = 42; 
         print( foo.bar.gee ); // 42
         print( foo.bar ); 'this' reference (XThis) to Bsh object: auto: bar
         print( foo ); 'this' reference (XThis) to Bsh object: auto: foo

      When assigning to a compound name, undefined components being resolved
      relative to a scripted object (bsh 'this' type reference) will be
      auto-allocated as scripted objects.

      This means that you can use BeanShell scripts just like properties
      files for initialization parameters.

    - BeanShell 'this' type references can now implement more than one
      interface.  Use getInterface( Class[] ).

    - BshMethod getReturnType() now returns Void.TYPE for voids, rather than
      the (incorrect) wrapper value Primitive.VOID.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.3 beta 1</h2>
<pre>
    - Class management Changes - class management is now on a per-Interpreter
        (per-global namespace) basis.  Multiple interpreter instances do not 
        any longer by default share classpath or cached class information.  
        (This will help in application server deployments).  
        Added the method: Interpreter getClassManager()
        %% some minor incompatible changes in NameSpace.java api.
        The NameSpace constructor now requires a BshClassManager instance.

    - Fixed bug where using reloadClasses() with no arguments (to reload
        the entire classpath) did not work properly when user classpath 
        included components with relative paths.

    - Scripts executed with the run() command (as opposed to eval() or
        source()) now have their own class manager and therefore classpath.
        Any namespace the is disconnected from its parent ( pruned() ) now
        creates a new class manager.  In the case of the run() command we
        inherit the old classpath explicitly.  ** this behavior may evolve 
        to cover all cases of a namespace with no class manager or parent **
        ** Note: the test suite runs a bit slower now because each test is
        run() and starts with a clean class cache.  Note that creating
        variants on the run() behavior (e.g. the old behavior) is trivial...
        See run.bsh.**

    - The bsh.system object which is shared across Interpreter instances
        has been renamed "bsh.shared".  For backwards compatability it is 
        still referenced as bsh.system as well.

    - Implemented some experimental caching of class method resolution for 
        performance.  When a method (overloaded or single) is resolved
        for a set of arguments, that method is cached based on the class,
        argument types, and method name.  In the test case of a loop simply 
        calling a Java method on an object or class this results in about a 
        40% speedup.  

    - Consolidated bsh scripted method dispatching code into This.java.

    - All scripted objects now implement the standard object protocol of
        toString(), hashcode() and equals().  Scripted object behavior is now 
        more consistent.  
        %% One minor incompatible change: the invoke() meta-method no longer
        intercepts toString(), hashcode() or equals().  If you wish to 
        override these you must script them directly in the object.

    - All normal error messages should now include line numbers and invocation 
        text.  Removed the no context constructors for EvalError and 
        TargetError.  Added checked parallel exceptions UtilEvalError and 
        UtilTargetError for use in other areas.  Use UtilEvalError 
        toEvalError( node, callstack ) to rethrow these as necessary.

    - Added script stack trace to error messages (e.g. method a() called 
        method b(), etc.).  EvalError and TargeError now require callstack.  
        Added getScriptStackTrace() method to EvalError API.  toString() 
        prints the script stack trace by default.

    - Errors indicating bad return control or return type from method now
        point to the exactly location of the return.

    - Removed deprecated get/setVariable methods...  optimized for common case
        in 1.2 branch so there should be no performance penalty for using
        set over setVariable.

    - Remote client can now utilize bsh:// URLs to talk to embedded bsh server.

    - Added "bsh" target to build.xml for running a script from the current
        build.  e.g. ant -Dfile=foo.bsh bsh

    - Stopped squeltching NoClassDefFound errors... This was the source of
    much frustration where BeanShell would indicate that a class was not found
    when it was really a dependent class that was missing.  We now catch
    NoClassDefFoundError and add a message specifying which class was being
    loaded when the missing class was encountered.

    - Added catch block in bshdoc.bsh script to report the file it was
        processing when an error occurs.

    - Fixed bug allowing try { } without catch or finally.

    - Enhanced bsh shell script launcher to add a default bsh JAR if none
        is in the classpath (as determined by a simplistic name test).  Works
        on cygwin and unix.

    - added sourceRelative() command, which sources the file relative to the
      caller's directory, not the working directory. (See the bshdoc for
      more explanation).

    - Upgraded to JavaCC 3.0 available from:
      http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaCC/index.html
      (Let's see, how many places have owned JavaCC now?  Sun Test, then 
      meta-mata, then webgain, then Sun "experimental stuff"?  Sun has
      promised to open source this... I hope they follow through).
      Modified build.xml to use the new package name (no package) and to assume
      that the jar is in the classpath for now.

    - Refactored and removed the ugly "LHS" part of the grammar.  This removed
      two ASTs which essentially duplicated the "straight" part of the grammar.
      There is still a bsh.LHS class (used as a wrapper for the target of an 
      assignment expression) but it is now created based on context rather than
      via a special part of the grammar.  Perhaps no one but the author will
      care about this but this always bugged me.  This also fixes some corner
      cases in assignments that were broken (tests fields1.bsh fields2.bsh).

    - Switched to BSF 2.3 package name by default.  BSF was donated from 
      IBM to Jakarta and changed its package name with 2.3.  If you want to use
      an older release just grab the bsh-bsf-1.2x.jar and drop it in your 
      classpath ahead of your bsh 1.3 dist.

    - Enhanced array creation to support undefined array dimensions as in Java.
      e.g. int [][][] foo = new int [3][][];

    - Enhanced array creation to support auto-casting in array initializers,
      e.g.  even though a primitive number is an int by default, the following 
      work (as in Java): 
        long [] la = { 1, 2 };  float [] fa = { 1, 2 }; byte [] ba = { 1, 2 };

    - Fixed import caching bugs.

    - Fixed problems with the method resolution caching: added hashcode to
      Primitive.java, fixed null argument issue, separated caches into object
      and static, removed side-effect from resolveJavaMethod in Reflect.  Did
      some initial profiling.  Overall I'm seeing about a 50% speedup in code
      that does primarily method dispatching.

    - Improved BshServlet - EvalErrors (and ParseExceptions) no longer spew the
      whole script again in the error message.  Inline evals now report the
      "file" name as an abbreviated portion of the script.  Errors in the
      servlet results show the offending line highlighted (html) red with four 
      lines of context and line numbers.  Tweaked the template html just a bit.

    - Removed deprecated overloaded NameSpace.getImportedClasses()
    
    - Moved Name.ClassIdentifier to bsh.ClassIdentifier top level class.
      ClassIdentifier allows scripted methods to accept plain class names as
      arguments.  e.g.  javap( java.lang.String );

    - Enhanced error message for undefined argument to method - now prints the
      argument text instead of the method parameter name and position.

    - Clarified the scoping of closures and blocks and fixed related bugs.  
      This should now work as expected.  A 'this' reference always refers to 
      the nearest enclosing method or the root scope.  This is true even when 
      the expression returning or assigning the 'this' reference is inside one 
      or more nested Java blocks. e.g.

          myMethod() {
              if ( true ) { /* inside block */ } else { /* */ }
              { /* gratuitous block */ }
          }

      Returning or assigning 'this' from inside myMethod() or inside any of
      the blocks all use the same 'this' reference (myMethod).  You may
      refer to local, typed variables declared in the block this.varname as
      expected, but they are not visible outside of the block (as in Java).
      See tests/this.bsh.

      Methods defined inside a block are now set in the parent block, as
      is consistent now with everything else blocks do.

    - Enhanced error message on missing or incorrect constructor.

    - Switch statements should now work with all types.  Previously numeric 
      switch statements only worked on the type int.  Now any numeric type or 
      wrapper will serve as the switch value and auto-boxing/unboxing occur as 
      elsewhere in BeanShell.  Switch statements also work with object types - 
      e.g. you can switch on Strings, Dates, or any objects that test properly
      with equals().  The only comparsion that is not allowed is primitive to
      arbitrary (non wrapper) object type.  e.g. compare 2 to a "two".  This 
      will cause a primtiive / object mismatch error.

    - Did some minor refactoring and cleanup in Reflect.java.

    - Added enhanced for loop as per JDK 1.5.  (Belated thanks to Daniel Leuck 
      for submitting his "each" statement long, long ago.)
      So you can now do things like:

        List foo = getSomeList();

        for ( untypedElement : foo ) 
            print( untypedElement ); 

        for ( Object typedElement: foo ) 
            print( typedElement );

        int [] array = new int [] { 1, 2, 3 };

        for( i : array ) 
            print(i);

        for( char c : "a string" )
            print( c ); 

      Supported iterable types include all the obvious things.  See the new 
      BshIterator API addition below for specifics.

    - Added BshIterator interface and bsh CollectionManager.  BeanShell now 
      supports a unified API for iteration over composite types including:

        JDK 1.1+ (no collections): Enumeration, arrays, Vector, String,
        StringBuffer
        JDK 1.2+ (w/collections): Collections, Iterator

      This was added to support the enhanced for loop above, but can also be 
      used in BeanShell commands that wish to loop over composite objects to 
      display them.  Usage e.g.:

        cm = CollectionManager.getCollectionManager();
        if ( cm.isBshIterable( myObject ) ) 
        {
            BshIterator iterator = cm.getBshIterator( myObject );
            while ( iterator.hasNext() )
                i = iterator.next();
        }

      If this proves to be useful we could add additional syntactic magic 
      later such as making all composite types implement the magic interface
      BshIterable, etc.

    - Maps can now be used with the hastable style accessor syntax.  e.g.

        Map map = new HashMap();
        map{"foo"} = "bar":
    
      This is another feature of the new CollectionManager (1.1 compatability
      is preserved).

    - Fixed void initializer bug whereby a void value in an initializer was
      allowed.

    - Refactored variable management a bit - all variables (both typed and
      untyped) are now wrapped in the wrapper NameSpace.Variable.  We could put
      a listener API on there if we wanted to "watch" variables.

    - Implemented BeanShell 1.3 scoping changes and preserved backwards 
      compatability with the -Doldscoping=true switch.

      Variable assignments now search up the parent chain for the variable
      definition rather than defaulting to local scope.  Variable assignments
      will therefore find the nearest enclosing variable definition - as one
      would expect in Java.  Prior to BeanShell 1.3 this was only true when
      "strict Java" mode was enabled.
      
      So, for example, the following idiomatic things now work as expected:

          incrementX() { x=x+1; }
          x=1;
          incrementX();
          assert( x == 2 ); // true!

          setFlag() { flag=true; }
          setFlag();
          assert( flag == true ); // true!
      
      A typed variable declaration will define the variable as usual in Java.
      An untyped variable assignment - for which there is no definition in any
      enclosing scope - will end up as a global variable assignment. e.g.

          int x = 1; // parent scope

          foo() 
          {
            // foo scope
            x = 2; // x assigned in parent scope

            int y = 1;
            y = 2; // y assigned in foo scope

            z = 99; // z has no enclosing scope, assigned global
          }

      An untyped variable can be made local in scope by assigning it with 
      the qualifier 'this' (as usual) or by using the new keyword 'var' to 
      explicitly declare it as an untyped variable.

          foo() 
          {
            // secret1 and secret2 are local to foo()
            this.secret1 = 42;
            var secret2 = 42;
          }

      The qualifier 'super' may be used, as in Java, to begin the search for a
      variable definition in the parent scope.

          int y = 1; // parent scope
          foo() 
          {
            int y = 2;
            super.y = 3; // y assigned in parent scope
          }

          Object closures (scripted objects created by returning 'this' from a
          method) may be assigned variables as usual:

          foo() { return this; }
          foo=foo();
          foo.a=1;
          print( foo.a ); // 1
          print( a ); // ERROR 'a' undefined here
    
      The old scoping rules have been preserved and can be switched on by
      setting the system property "oldscoping" to "true".
      See newscoping.bsh in the test suite for more examples.

      Note: There is exactly *one* line of code in NameSpace.java that looks 
      at the Interpreter.LOCALSCOPING flag to determine what to do.  
      Everything else happens naturally.  So there should be no fear that we
      are accumulating legacy baggage.  On the contrary, BeanShell refactoring
      is making it more powerful and simpler.

      - Fixed bug in evaluation of operator-assignments with postfix in the
        RHS.  (Java behavior seems strange to me.) e.g.
            i=1; i+=i++; // should be 2 apparently
            i=1; i+=i++ + i++; // should be 4 apparently
    
      - BeanShell now supports modifiers (e.g. public, private, static, etc.)
        on methods and typed variable declarations.  Basic sanity checks are
        done at parse time (e.g. you can't apply volatile to a method, mix
        public/private, etc.)  "final" is implemented for typed variables but
        other modifiers are currently ignored. 

      - The "synchronized" modifier is now implemented for methods and
        synchronized blocks.  Synchronized blocks work as in Java.
        Synchronized methods lock their parent namespace's This reference, so
        for purposes of serialization (executing exclusively one one at a time)
        they work as in Java. 

          // The following synchronize on the same lock
          synchronized ( this ) { }     // block
          synchronized int foo () { }   // method foo
          synchronized int bar () { }   // method bar
          int gee() {
             synchronized( super ) { }  // inside gee() 
          }

      - The "throws" clause on methods is now supported.  Throws clause names
        are validated to insure that they are known class types, however they
        are not enforced beyond that.

      - Field style object property access now supports isFoo() style getters
        for boolean properties. e.g.
            
            Float flot = new Float(0f);
            print( flot.infinite ); // float.isInifinite()

      - Improved error message on attempting to access private/protected 
        members without setAccessibility(true).  Error now shows non-public
        method and suggests turning on accessibility.

      - User defined command prompt in interactive mode.  The user may set the
        value for the prompt string using the variable bsh.prompt or by
        defining the scripted method (or command) getBshPrompt().  

        If the command or method getBshPrompt() is defined it will be called to
        get a string to display as the user prompt.  For example, one could
        define the following method to place the current working directory into
        their command prompt:

            getBshPrompt() { return bsh.cwd + " % "; }
    
        The default getBshPrompt() command returns the value of the variable
        bsh.prompt if it is defined or the string "bsh % " if not.  If the
        getBshPrompt() method does not exist, throws an exception, or does not
        return a String, a default prompt of "bsh % " will be used.

      - Fixed JConsole backspace through prompt bug.

      - User Command Path - You may now import BeanShell scripted or compiled
        commands from any package path using the importCommands() method.
        You may use either "/" path or "." package notation.  e.g. 

            // equivalent
            importCommands("/bsh/commands")
            importCommands("bsh.commands")
            importCommands("/mypackage/commands")

        When searching for a command each path will be checked for first, a file
        named 'command'.bsh and second a class file named 'command'.class.

        You may add to the BeanShell classpath using the addClassPath() or
        setClassPath() commands and then import them as usual.

            addClassPath("mycommands.jar");
            importCommands("/mypackage/commands");

        If a relative path style specifier is used then it is made into an
        absolute path by prepending "/".  Later imports take precedence over
        earlier ones.

        Imported commands are scoped just like imported clases.

        See news about the invoke() meta-method for information about how you
        could implement your own, arbitrary command loading.

      - The getResource() command now utilizes the BeanShell classpath. i.e.
        you can get resources from paths added with addClassPath(), etc.

      - The BshClassManager now contains the methods getResource() and
        getResourceAsStream().

      - The invoke() meta method is now allowed directly in scope, e.g.

            invoke( String methodName, Object [] arguments ) { ... }

            // invoke() will be called to handle noSuchMethod()
            noSuchMethod("foo"); 

        Previously invoke() was only allowed when called through a 'this' type
        reference, e.g. a scripted interface.

        One could use this capability to implement arbitrary command loading
        capabilites.  You would simply have to handle wrapping/ unwrapping
        of primitive value argument and return types with bsh.Primitive.

      - Fixed bug in bsh.util.Httpd causing class format errors
      - Changed BshServlet redirect to a relative path rather than absolute URL

    </pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b8 </h2>
<pre>
    - Some Strict Java mode bugs fixed. %(Incompatible API Change)
        Strict Java mode now functions on a per-interpreter basis.  The
        static strictJava variable is gone (it was always labeled as 
        experimental) and is replaced by the instance method Interpreter
        setStrictJava().  Interpreter set() methods now work (untyped 
        assignments using Interpreter set() is allowed and existing untyped 
        variables can be assigned in scripts in either mode).  
        +Added a test case.
        Most bsh commands still fail in strict Java mode for simple reasons.
        These will be cleaned up in a future release.

    - Added check for return of value from void method.  Fixed a couple of
        places where we made this mistake.

    - Added dirname() command

    - Added "test" target to build file (runs tests/RunAllTests.bsh).  Modified
        RunAllTests.bsh to cd() to the directory containing the RunAllTests.bsh
        script before executing the tests.

    - Certain return type errors now point to specific locations, rather
        than the method declaration.

    - Fixed Interpreter setErr() bug

    - Exceptions thrown from proxy interfaces are now unwrapped.
        If your script throws an exception (or causes one to be thrown) that is
        declared in the throws clause of your interface method then it will
        be thrown from the method as one would expect. 
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b7 </h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed bug where Interepreter was not closing Reader streams after
    sourcing files.
    - Updated JConsole to work with Java 1.4.1 (changed getText.length() calls
    to getDocument().getLength()).
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b6 </h2>
<pre>
    - Made bsh.Parser public and added a main() method allowing users to 
    call the parser on files for simple validity checking.
    - Made a small addition to grammar to provide an option to retain
    formal (javadoc style) comments in the parse tree.
    - Fixed accessibility bug in finding fields
    - Fixed minor bugs in bsh.servlet.BshServlet
    - Fixed scoping on catch blocks such that untyped variables
    in the catch parameter do not leak out of the block. They now act as they
    would with a declared type in Java (local).
    - Fixed some thread safety bugs with try/catch blocks.
    - Fixed Interpreter serialization issue - reset streams
    - Fixed bug in accessibility affecting access to package 
        hidden superclasses
    - Added bshdoc.bsh script and bshdoc.xsl stylesheet to the scripts dir.
    These can be used to support javadoc style documentation of bsh files
    and commands.
    - Exposed bsh.BshMethod and added a public invoke() method.
    - Added getMethod() method to namespace to enumerate methods
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b5 </h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed bug in using loosely typed vars as indexes to arrays.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b43 </h2>
<pre>
    - Modified Interpreter so that it is serializable.  It is now possible
    to serialize the entire bsh instance.  The load() and save() commands
    however recognize when you are trying to save a bsh object (bsh.This)
    type and detach it from the parent namespace, so that saving a bsh object
    in this way doesn't drag along the whole interpreter  See This.bind()
    and This.unbind().
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b42 </h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed bug affecting scoping in blocks.  This was breaking the test 
    harness in a way that caused it not to be caught before!
    - Added a special test for the test harness to catch this sort of thing
    in the future.
    - Fixed problem with classloading causing bsh extensions not to be found
    in some environments.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b3 and 1.2b4 </h2>
<pre>
    - The class manager now uses the Thread "context classloader" to factory
    classes when available.  This allows bsh to be instaled in the 
    jre/lib/ext directory (previously user classes wouldn't be seen).  Yeah!
    This may also allow bsh to see user classpath in application servers
    like Weblogic, which include it in the core classpath.
    - added the clear() command to clear variables and methods from a namespace.
    - added setOut() and setErr() methods to Interpreter.
    - added new bsh.servlet package to the main distribution
    - added bsh.Remote launcher
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b2 and 1.2b3 </h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed nasty bug in grammar, added test cases to expression.bsh
    Note: this bug was preventing the latest version of bsh from being used
    with Weblogic 6.1 (which uses bsh internally and was failing).
    - Handled the "single line comment with no terminating linefeed" issue.
    - Added getInterface() method to Interpreter.
    - Fixed issue with identity semantics for this in cast case, e.g.:
        ((ActionListener)this == (ActionListener)this) is now true.
    - cat() command will now print files, urls, streams, and readers
    - Exceptions in native (compiled) user classes will now print with
        both the BeanShell script trace and native Java stack trace.  
        Exceptions generated directly from scripts continue to show only the 
        script trace (as that is all that is meaningful).  
    - ParseException is now a subtype of EvalError... previously these were
        caught and the contents were moved to an EvalError.  This means that 
        now the ParseEx implements the contract as far as getErrorLineNumber(),
        getErrorText(), and getErrorSourceFile()
    - In interactive mode, the last uncaught exception is now available in
        the variable $_e (like the $_ last result).
    - Improved the way that imported class names are cached in namespaces,
        reducing the number of caches created and improving performance.
    - Improved javap() command slightly
    - Modified This references so that you can invoke the methods: getClass()
        and invokeMethod() on them.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.2b1</h2>
<pre>
    - Added support for accessibility - Using a dynamically loaded extension
    (ReflectManager) bsh will use the accessibility API to allow access to
    private/protected fields, methods and non-public classes.
    - added the setAccessible() command to turn this behavior on/off
    (it is *off* by default in this release...  we may change that later.)
    - added the bsh.reflect package and ReflectManager to support the above.
    - Added support for IBM's Bean Scripting Framework (BSF). 
    - Added a new jar with the BSF adapter class bsh.util.BeanShellBSFEngine.
    This is also included in the full dist (it's small).
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha19</h2>
<pre>
    - Added a somewhat experimental "strict java" mode.  When activated with
    setStrictJava(true) BeanShell will:
        1) require typed variable declarations, method arguments and 
            return types
        2) modify the scoping of variables to look for the variable declaration
            first in the parent namespace, as in a java method inside a java
            class.  e.g. if you can write a method called incrementFoo() that
            will do the correct thing without referring to super.foo.

    -Added another form of the run() command that accepts an argument to be
        passed to the child context.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha18</h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed a bug affecting static field access.
    - Added a static setClassLoader() method to Interpreter and BshClassManager.
        This allows an external classloader to be specified.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha17</h2>
<pre>
    - Added simple mechanism to allow scripted commands/methods to accept
      class identifiers as arguments. e.g.:
        foo( java.lang.String );
      see Name.identifierToClass();
    - added which() command - shows class source
    - modified class browser to show class source when class is selected
    - Changed the type of the (very recently added) this.callstack reference
        from an array to the actual internal CallStack type.  You can use
        toArray() to get it as an array or get(depth).
    - added unset() method to interpreter.  Fixed bug in set(name, null);
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha16</h2>
<pre>
    Improved error reporting on errors during method invocation.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha15</h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed server mode and re-added demo applets
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha14</h2>
<pre>
    - Important addition - nodes now remember the source file from which
    they were parsed...  This means that debug messages are much more useful
    now, especially with errors thrown from multiple files.
    - Re-worked classpath mapping user feedback mechanism (will support a GUI
    now).
    - Fixed general block scoping bugs.  Things should act like Java now.
    typed vars declared within blocks does not leak out.  e.g. { int i=2; } 
    - Added getSourceFileInfo() command to return the name of the file or
    source from which the current interpreter is reading.  
    (uses this.interpreter.getSourceFileInfo())
    - Added a parent ref to the interpreter for future use by the child
    eval interpreters.
    - Added new form of source() command that takes a URL.
    - Tenatively added new feature to get the text of a method invocation 
    from within the method body...  may be useful along with this.caller.
    See namespace.getInovcationText() namespace.getInvocationLine().
</pre>
<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha13</h2>
<pre>
    - Removed core bsh package dependencies on 1.2.  bsh will now compile and
        run under 1.2  with some features limited.
    - Moved some console related functionality out of the core and into 
        bsh.util.  There is a new bsh.util.GUIConsoleInterface.  NameCompletion
        is now in bsh.util and has been replaced with a more primitive 
        supporting interface bsh.NameSource in the core.
</pre>
<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha13</h2>
<pre>
    - Moved all Name object construction into NameSpace.  This will support
    Name resolvers caching information in the future. e.g. bsh could
    know that a variable is final and optimize the resolution.  Or a long
    chain of names (java.lang.Integer.MAX_INTEGER) could be optimized.
    - .class on array types now working. e.g.  "int [][].class"
    - Fixed bugs in grammar which dissallowed certain simple expressions
    unless they were parenthesized.
    - Fixed related case relating to expressions with assignment to a 
    throw-away method invocation.
</pre>


<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha12</h2>
<pre>
    - Added "trace" option.
        java -Dtrace=true bsh.Interpreter or trace() command.
        turns on printing of each line before it is executed.  Note that
        this currently prints only top level lines as they are parsed and
        executed by the interpreter.  trace skips over method exectutions 
        (including bsh commands) etc.  We may enhance this in the future.
    - Fixed bugs in primitive handling:
        primitives smaller than int are now properly assigned in declarations:
            e.g.: byte b = 5;
        primitive are internally promoted to the correct type on assignment
        to a typed variable, 
            e.g.:  long l = (byte)5;  // l is a long value internally
    - Cleanup in cast operation.. re-factored the cast code into two types
        of cast operations.
    - Tightened up re-declaration of typed variables...  You can only redeclare
        a typed var with the same type, else you can an error.  Previously
        there was odd behavior where you could redeclare with an assignable
        type.
    - Fixed bugs in casting
    - Fixed the remainng known bugs in array initializers.  They should now
    work precisely as they do in Java.  See the test case for examples.
</pre>
<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha11</h2>
<pre>
    - Improved error reporting.  There should no longer be any errors that
        report "unknown location".  At minimum, any error should report the
        source file and line number.  Normally errors should report the text
        of the offending construct.
    - Cleanup in array handling
        - fixed bugs with null initializers, loose types, promotion
</pre>
<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha10</h2>
<pre>
    - Major internal change: added callstack.
        two new magic references:
            bsh.This this.caller
            NameSpace [] this.callstack
    - Some commands now behave correctly, some slight changes- see notes.

    - made change to insure that pathToFile always returns canonical path
    this fixed bug in addClassPath
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha9</h2>
<pre>
    - Added a very nice ANT build file, yeah!
    - added a bit more synchronization in console
    - removed unecessary file/cwd related code
    - removed unecessary code and lib file supporting old java packages 
        optimization

    - Redefined scoping behavior in for-init to act like java.  See notes
    elsewhere.
    - Added switch statement.
    - made sure Ctrl-d in interctive mode shuts down interpreter.
    - Fixed cleanup of weak references in bsh class manager
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha8</h2>
<pre>
    - import changes -
        - Defined order of precedence - in bsh ambiguous imports are compile 
        time error.  In bsh (where imports are allowed at any time) the later 
        import takes precedence.
        - fixed bug causing stack overflow

    - Internal restructuring - made Interpreter its own class rather than being
        auto-generated by javacc.  This allows us to generate decent javadoc 
        without hundreds of parser methods.  Improved javadoc.

    - Fixed the precedence of name resolution to be consisten with Java.
        variables now always trump class name resolution.  This simplifies
        name resolution a bit and also makes things a bit faster.  However 
        sometimes you have to use import now to get around a variable name 
        hiding a qualified class name.

    - Performance improvement: empty loop test case four times faster
        overall appears as much as 30% faster
    - Fixed bugs in certain runtime exception handling
    - Fixed bug in static vs. dynamic overloaded method resolution
</pre>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha6</h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed grammar relating to Expression/BlockStatement parsing...  This was 
    causing the bug with declaring a typed var with a fully qualified class 
    name.  e.g. java.sql.Date date;

    - Fixed 'return' control problem...  return now works properly for 
    interactive and non-interactive scripts.

    F- ixed CTRL-D bug - now exits properly in interactive mode.
</pre>

<h2>
<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha51</h2>
<pre>
    - Fixed bug causing debug code to call toString() for every method call on
    an object, whether debug was on or not.
</pre>
</h2>

<h2>Changes in 1.1alpha5</h2>
<pre>
    - License change only...  Added SPL Sun Public License agreement with
    dual licensing under the LGPL
</pre>

<h2>Changes in bsh1.1alpha3</h2>
<pre>
    - Added .field style properties access in addition to the {} style
    - Added anonymous inner class style allocation for interfaces
    - Class browser now reflects changes in class path
</pre>

<h2>Changes in bsh1.1alpha2</h2>
<pre>
    - Added namespace based name completion for console and classbrowser
        completes variables, classes, (coming... bsh methods)

    - Added import * capability to read full classpath.
    - Added overloading of bsh scripted methods
    - Added classpath extension and class reloading
        reloadClasses() reloadClasses(item)

    - improved the class browser - now has tree for packages and reflects
    the extended classpath , other improvements

    - Loose arguments in catch clauses now work.
    - deprecated getVariable/setVariable api.  Moving to get()/set()/eval();
    - internally removed BshVariable - it wasn't doing what it was historically
    intended for.  Replaced with a new bsh.system object which is shared
    across all interpreter instances
    - Added bsh.system.shutdownOnExit variable... set to false to prevent
    exit() command and desktop close from exiting the VM.
    - Loosened grammar to allow import statments in any block scope.
    e.g. you can now import within a bsh method and the import will be local
    to that method
    -Added javap() command...  accepts object, class, or string name and
    prints public fields, methods

    -Added -Doutfile=foo capture output to file (for Windows nightmare)
    - Cleaned up a lot of internal structure in NameSpace, etc.
    -Interpreter now implements ConsoleInterface
</pre>

<h2>Changes in bsh-1.01</h2>
<pre>
    - Modified parse exceptions to print more tersely...   
    Removed the "Was expecting one of..." text *except* when debug is on.
    - Fixed the for statement forinit scope bug.
    - Got rid of remaining deprecation (using Readers vs. InputStreams)
    - Fixed top level expression bug #111342
    - Fixed problems with compiling bsh under limited JDK verions (1.1, 1.2).
      We now have factories insulating the core from all extended version
      capabilities (e.g. proxy mechanism stuff, accessibility TBD)
    - Modified browseClass() command to accept string class name, 
        class instance, or arbitrary object 
    - Modified search for constructors to accomodate package and private
        access.
    - Added close button to class browser.
</pre>

<h2>Changes in bsh-1.0</h2>
<em>Not necessarily in order of importance</em>
<p>
<ul>

<li>Added generalized support for scripts implementing interfaces (e.g.
arbitrary event listeners).
This uses the important new JDK1.3 reflection proxy mechanism to manufacture
a proxy interface at run time.  No code generation is necessary!
<ul>
    <li>Added support to the cast operation to use the new mechanism.
    <li>Added support for automatic conversion to interface on method selection.
    e.g. if you attempt to pass a bsh scripted object as a method argument
    where the method signature calls for an interface an automatic cast to
    the appropriate interface type will be attempted.
    <li>Added a magic method invoke(method,args) which can be used to 
    handle method invocations on undefined interface methods in bsh objects.  
    This takes the place of "dummy" adapters; allowing a script to ignore one 
    or more methods of an interface that it is implementing. 
    <em>Note: one special case - direct invocations within scope 
    (e.g. command invocations) are not currently sent to invoke.</em>
</ul>

<li> Added startup file (.rc file) support.
Bsh will source the file "user.home"/.bshrc upon startup.
This defaults to C:\Windows under win98 and $HOME under Unix.
(can the home be set with an env var under Win?  "home" doesn't seem to do it).

<li>Added arguments to file invocation on command line.  
e.g.
<pre>
    java bsh.Interpreter MyClass foo bar
</pre>
Args are accessible through the root bsh object:  String [] bsh.args

<li>Enhancements to JConsole submitted by Daniel Leuck;
Added color and image support, fixed several bugs.

<li>Added support for inner classes.  This should all work as expected, but
it's new so let me know if you find weirdness.
<ul>
    <li>Added support for inner classes to import statement.
</ul>

<li>Changed the way eval()/source() handle script errors.  Instead of 
returning the error object as a value it is now wrapped up with some context 
and rethrown as an EvalError.  So you can simply catch the error with a normal 
try/catch block if you want to.  Previously errors in sourced/eval'd files 
were being squelched.  This was bad.  Note: exceptions generated by the
script or through code called by the script are thrown as TargetErrors (a
subclass of EvalError) which can also be caught and examined.


<li>Improved error reporting in many areas.  
Fixed really annoying error reporting bug that squelched target error 
info in sourced files (and commands).

<li>Improved bsh cast operation so that it throws standard ClassCastException 
for invalid cast.  You can now guard against them with the ordinary try/catch
in a bsh script.

<li>Modified the command line portion of the grammar to accept arbitrary 
expressions. e.g. you can type ``5*2;'' or ``foo instanceof Foo;'' on the 
command line now without any enclosing parens.
(Of course you won't see anything unless you're using the show() option).

<li>Removed the old AWT version of the GUI console.  If you need it you can 
get it on the web site separately.  I may reconsider this.

<li>Removed the console() command which was primarily for the old AWT console.

<li>Modified the browseClass() command to take an object instead of a string
class name.  Now you can simple say browseClass( someObject ) and pop up
the class browser to the correct place.  Special hack: If the specified object 
is a Class it will use the class.  This will all probably be replaced by
a general browse() method for the upcoming object inspector.

<li>Changed the return type of the frame() command to allow it to return an
internal frame when desktop is active.  Frame will now do the correct thing
whether the desktop is up or not.

<li>Rebuilt the distribution with JavaCC / JJTree version 1.1.  
Haven't notice any difference yet.

<li>Fixed the 'for' scoping bug - See docs on for scoping for clarification.
Previously variables declared within the for-init section were leaking out
into the outer namespace. 

<li>Fixed a bug in which tokenizer errors would cause the interpreter to hang
or exit.  They are now handled like other parsing errors.  In the future we
may want to break them out so that they can be handled separately from
EvalError.

<li>Added missing += form of string concatenation.

<li>Incorporated a patch and test suite case from Roger Bolsius that corrects 
some of the package / hidden reflected class access.  Previously the code did 
not handle the more difficult cases.

<li>Incorporated a patch from Mike Woolley which works around JDK bug 4071281
(EOF problem) under Windows JDK v1.1.

<li>Fixed most of the bugs in server mode.  Run the server pair (httpd / 
sessiond) using the server( port ) command.  Then you can telnet to port+1
or attach your web browser to port.  Note that the web browser must support
swing to run the remote JConsole.  We could supply the AWTConsole back for
compatability with old browsers...  but I'd like to move on.

<li>Internall trivia - changed the prefix of the names of all of the parser 
node classes from AST to BSH.

<li>Fixed a bug which caused ClassCastException during (ironically) a bsh 
cast operation.

<li>Improved the test harness slightly and added a number of new files to the
test suite for all of the new features.  Please send more test cases for
the test suite!

<li>Internal change: Simplified the code that determines array base types.

<li> Fixed bug where special characters on input (e.g. control charcters ^D) 
would cause the tokenizer to loop on errors.  Non printable chars are now
skipped as white space.

<li>Added the missing do-while statement

<li>Internal: Tightened up the code a bit by combining the BSH node conditional 
evaluation into one place.

<li>Fixed some race conditions in the JConsole.
Fixed multi-writer console problems.

<li>Fixed order of evaluation bugs: classes now always first, then bsh vars.
Note: this may not always be desireable.  e.g. if you have a class named
"x" in your path (violating the common naming conventions) then you can't
use a variable of name 'x' in your scripts.  Conversely though, it prevents
one from doing "Integer = 5;" and shadowing the java.lang.Integer class
with a variable name.  Any thoughts on this?

<li>Corrected handling of the bsh root object.

<li>Added a menu item to console to redirect stdin/stdout/stderr.
If you close the console they are restored to the original System.in,out,err.

</ul>

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